PlayStation Plus: November Preview

It’s going to be quite the month for PlayStation fans. PS4 is almost here, and it’s going to be mega awesome when I fire mine up for the first time and already have two free games to play. Yep, both Resogun, the intense and beautiful shoot ‘em up from Housemarque(the amazing people behind Super Stardust) and Contrast, a unique 2D/3D puzzler platformer with a stunning art style will be available in the Instant Game Collection for PlayStation Plus members on November 15th.

Of course, we have plenty of other great games to keep you busy until then, like Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, which is an expanded and enhanced version of Capcom’s original IP Dragon’s Dogma. There’s a new area to explore, a fast-travel system and plenty of new quests and weapons to keep you busy. Later on this month we’ll add ibb & obb, a 2-player co-op puzzler and Binary Domain, a third-person squad shooter. PS Vita owners can look forward to two amazing action-adventure titles: the classic Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and the ever-epic Soul Sacrifice.

These games will hit the Instant Game Collection at various times throughout the month, so check back with us every Monday morning to see all the benefits of your membership.

November PlayStation Plus Preview

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $39.99
An epitaph speaks of another’s demise…A mysterious island known as Bitterblack Isle appears off the coast of Gransys. Its depths have claimed the lives of many Arisen their voices still haunt the labyrinth that lies deep beneath its surface–a labyrinth ripe with secrets waiting to be discovered. The time to take up arms has come once again. Delve into the isle’s depths and uncover its dark secret!

Ibb & obb (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $9.99
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local cooperative couch fun or match up online. Fall up and jump down through 15 levels filled with double gravity puzzles and discover the 8 hidden worlds that will test your new non-Newtonian skills to the maximum.

Resogun (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
RESOGUN is an intense fast-paced shoot em’ up developed exclusively for the PS4 system. Unleash a diverse array of devastating weapons including lasers, missiles, overdrive, and nova-bombs to blast hordes of enemies and rescue the last survivors from distant galactic colonies that are under ruthless attack from an evil alien invasion force.

Contrast (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
Contrast is a 2D/3D puzzle/platformer, set in a 1920’s vaudevillian, film noir dreamscape, full of cabaret, illusion and performance. You play as Dawn, the imaginary friend of a little girl, Didi, and you have the power to shift from the 3D world into a 2D shadowscape, by becoming your shadow. As Didi’s imaginary best friend, you must use your shadow shifting abilities to solve complex puzzles, in order to help Didi investigate the secrets that lie behind her troubled family.

Binary Domain (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99
Created by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind some of SEGA’s most well-known video game franchises including the critically acclaimed Yakuza series, Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast paced and intense battle for humanity in a robot-filled 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they make. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines?

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $14.99
In the dusty, undeveloped wastelands of Western Mudos, cantankerous townsfolk find their settlements besieged by belligerent outlaws. Along comes Stranger, a tall, dark and enigmatic bounty hunter with a mission to capture troublemakers and scoundrels and return them to civilized townships for incarceration.

Soul Sacrifice (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $35.99
Prepare yourself for a brutal combat experience where every decision made will have consequential results. Take on the role of a slave who is about to be sacrificed stumbles upon a forbidden book that allows its readers to relive battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past. In order to use the magic during fierce battles, the player must be willing to make a sacrifice – ranging from personal belongings, a limb, or even a life.

If you’ve got feedback on PlayStation Plus make sure you take the poll above as well as leave a comment below. To chat about all things PlayStation, including this update, you can head over to the PlayStation Community Forums. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute to, or start your own discussion.

This is a great month for plus and there seems to be a lot of the community that are loving this as well. I’m questioning to download Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisan because I have the physical Dragon’s Dogma game. Will there be a Dark Arisan expansion download? Otherwise really great month for Plus, Soul Sacrifice (already have the game) was a game I was not expecting to see on plus so soon. Vita owners are in for a treat.

A fantastic month for me. The first time all year where I have not purchased at least one of these games already for my PlayStation systems. Binary Domain, OddWorld and Soul Sacrifice were all on my to-buy list as well. Great news. Thanks.

About Resogun and Contrast for PS4, PLEASE ANSWER!
Do you know if they will come to PS+ before launch of the PS4 so we can download them,
or will we have to wait till afterwards. Didn’t buy any games with my PS4, hoping to have something
to play besides Warframe.

i.e. TUE, Nov.12 they release so FRI, Nov.15 I can download.
Or is waiting till the 19th more likely?

See ps plus? Why don’t you give stuff like this every month like EU? Ths is an awesome month, thanks. I was already looking forward to buy Soul Sacrifice but i just saved 35$. Please, do this big stff every month like EU. This is what everybody pays for

Ibb & Obb was the gem of PSN Play this year in my opinion. Very enjoyable couch coop with some genuine brain teasing.

Might also give Dragon’s Dogma another attempt. Couldn’t get into it the first time I tried, perhaps because I was expecting too much Dark Souls. But HDD space permitting, I wanna give it another chance.

That lineup is insane. And to think, people were worried Sony was gonna cut back on the monthly offerings for the Vita or the 3 to make room for PS4 games. Instead, we get a stellar selection with a couple PS4 games as well. I’m not usually one to praise multinational corporations, but Sony is really knocking it out of the park here. I’m in no way a “fanboy” but good lord the competition is looking really weak these days(and I say that as a customer of both). PlayStation Plus is THE gold standard now.

Not even mad I already own a couple of these. Everyone should play Soul Sacrifice.

I my opinion, EU PS+ is better that the US one atm…
Where are the best Titles for the Instant Game Collection? Binary Domain is graded 7.5/10 at IGN, and DRAGON’S DOGMA: DARK ARISEN, 7.9/10… I’ve expected better than that. :/
Please think about LA Noire, Assassin’s Creed II, Mass Effect, Killzone 3, etc..

@56 oshkoshbagosh1: I have a question because I really don’t know: Aren’t the games here (NA) available for a whole month? If so, I’m not sure how EU’s way is any better. If I don’t have Plus and don’t get it till mid-December, I can still get IGC stuff from late November. The other way it would have disappeared at the start of the new month. It’s just two different ways of arranging things, with neither being any better or worse than the other.

can i add free ps4 gams to my download que, even if i dont have my ps4 yet? hoping to create a backlog of ps4 games before i buy one. probably be a few months, maybe march. enough time to debug it, tweak it, be ready for it.

i hate how many people complain. i read a story about how sony listens to its customers if they go play in traffic.

@57 jasonstreet: If I didn’t know better I’d think you were joking. In what way are you being “punished” by Sony? From time to time, PS3 slots in the IGC will be replaced by slots for PS4. And why shouldn’t that occur? Why should people with PS4’s have less so that you (and me BTW, since I won’t be getting a PS4 at launch) can have more? Either we can’t afford the purchase, we find enough value left in our PS3’s (like my umpteen game deep backlog) to delay it, etc. I find words like “punish” being used in this manner to be silly at best.

@everyone who has a complaint about the IGC: Imagine the following scenario: You’ve had Plus for months or even years. All of a sudden Sony decides to start giving away a lot more games to Plus via their brand new IGC program. IGC? What’s that? Free games? Score! AAA titles and indies, many of them new? Saving me even more money on games I was going to buy anyway? I mean, some of them I couldn’t care less about but still. Wow!

I lived that scenario when the IGC began in June 2012. So did everyone else who was around back then. Not sure when or where we picked up all these crybabies.

Ok…I’ve tried numerous times to find an answer. PS Plus is just too good of a deal, I actually have at least 20 untouched games all from Instant Game Collection. November is going to be sick, but I am wondering, Can our Instant Game Collection be re-downloaded when we get our PS4s?

My only option right now is to keep my PS3 so that I can play through all this content, BUT if I know I can re-download my Instant Game Collection to PS4 based on my account history, this would save me shelf space.

Good thing I sold my copy of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen after beating it countless times. I can just download and play for the nostalgia now. If people want to use my level 120+ pawn(can’t remember its level) go on ahead. Add me to if you want.

ps4 IGC games, can iI add them to my download list (like iI do with vita games/PSP games) and then download them once I get to my ps4, or will I HAVE to have a ps4 to add them.

if we can just add the ps4 IGC games to my que list and download them when iI get a ps4, months from now. I will be more likely to get a ps4 sooner knowing I already have a backlog of games waiting on me.